While the 3 Bruces had nothing to say about this product, I immediately thought that it would be kind of cool to find a way to promote it alongside a related service…
But maybe I’m just an evil sicko. Yeah, that’s probably it.
While the 3 Bruces had nothing to say about this product, I immediately thought that it would be kind of cool to find a way to promote it alongside a related service…
But maybe I’m just an evil sicko. Yeah, that’s probably it.
According to the Otaku Purity Test I score a 63. “Your mother is worried about you.” Shows you what they know about my mother, huh?
Dawn, who sent me the link, scored an 81. “Stop watching anime and go outside!”
Oh, and somebody should convince the person(s) behind that website that coding exclusively for Infobahn Exploder should be a crime punishable by death. Or something.
Upon (finally) realizing that many visitors to this website would have absolutely no freaking idea who I am or what I’m doing here, I decided to write up a biographical page to clear up the mystery.
Two months later, I’ve actually gotten around to doing it.
Right below the “Home” link at the upper-left corner of each page is a “Bio” link. Click and read, kind visitor.
GreyDuck Bio Page
For the most part, I’m very pleased with the service I get from Invite.net. They might want to look into changing how they roll out new domains, however. By default, they provide a version of formmail.pl that is hugely susceptible to being used as a spam relay.
I discovered this, of course, when I found several dozen “undeliverable” notices in my mailbox this evening. Luckily, one of the offending messages included a link to the means of transmission. Otherwise I’d still be sitting here at home scratching my head in wonder. Instead I’ve simply taken the step of making all of the scripts Invite provided me with non-executable. I also renamed formmail.pl to be safe.
While a big chunk of blame lands on Invite for this snafu, it bears mentioning that I could and should have investigated and disabled any scripts I had no intention of using right when I first rolled out the website. Let this be a lesson to anyone who sets up hosting on someone else’s machine: Remove or disable anything you aren’t actually going to need. You never know which services and scripts are vulnerable to abuse.
It’s been a few weeks since the last one, so here’s a Friday Five for y’all:
Thanks to friend Dawn up in Seattle for sending along the link to one of the more unusual casemods I’ve seen: the Aqua Tank.
I’d get into casemodding, but it requires some things I lack, such as money and a certain facility with tools.